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Robbing vs Pillage - What's the difference?

robbing | pillage |

As verbs the difference between robbing and pillage

is that robbing is present participle of lang=en while pillage is to loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.

As nouns the difference between robbing and pillage

is that robbing is robbery while pillage is the spoils of war.

robbing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • robbery
  • * 1985 , David-Hillel Ruben, The Metaphysics of the Social World (page 141)
    • Consider the first, allegedly contrastive fact, that there were some bank robbings by Sutton rather than no robbings at all by Sutton.

    pillage

    English

    Verb

    (pillag)
  • (ambitransitive) To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.
  • * 1911 , ,
    • Archibald V. (1361-1397) was Count of Perigord. He was nominally under the lilies [France], but he pillaged indiscriminately in his county.

    Noun

    (-)
  • The spoils of war.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Which pillage they with merry march bring home.
  • The act of pillaging.

    • Noun

    (m)
  • looting

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